The new and revised guidelines will cover motoring offences, aggravated vehicle taking, perverting the course of justice, witness intimidation, immigration offences, blackmail, threats to disclose private sexual images, kidnap and false imprisonment offences before March 2024,
It has already published guidelines on animal cruelty in May. The council’s work during the year will also include review and evaluation of its existing guidelines on bladed articles and offensive weapons, intimidatory and breach offences, and a review of the expanded explanations which accompany the guideline factors.
In his introduction, Lord Justice William Davis, chair of the Sentencing Council, said: ‘Virtually all major offences seen regularly by the courts now have dedicated guidelines.’
He said the council would continue to develop 'You be the Judge', an online guide to sentencing that uses video stories to demonstrate sentencing in magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court.
